Quotes from Kyle

You never know how many people are compassionate about something, especially when it's not happening to you. You just hope somebody's out there helping.

Life is a puzzle. Every piece fits together to create who we are, what we do, how we feel. Every experience shapes us into who we will eventually become.

What is a hit? Who can tell? Who decides what a hit sounds like? I needed to remind myself that a hit is whatever people decide is a hit. I don't make hits; I make music. People make hits.

I am a pretty bad driver, so when I drive, I need to be calm. I can't be vibing to DMX, all hype, in the car.

I did have a speech impediment.

That was everything to me as a kid. When I'd see someone on MTV, it was like, 'Wow, they're the real deal.'

Nobody can deliver a line better than Jadakiss. That's where I learned my technique. He can deliver punchlines so perfectly wrapped up for you to enjoy. If I had a different favorite rapper, I wouldn't be able to make some of the music I do.

I always been writing songs since I was, like, six. I was listening to Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Frankie Laine and people like that. I was just in the backyard writing songs.

When you start making music, you start making music at a young age, and for me, I just thought, like, 'Ahh, once you make it, all your problems will be solved, and everything will be fine.'

I want to make a lot of people smile.

Doesn't matter if you're sad or happy. I can be sad, you can be happy; it's all good. That's all I'm saying - let's just be us.

Kodak is hard. 'No Flockin' is an amazing song.

I'll always have my fan base. I know my actual fans are rockin' with me even when my haircut was messed up. They're never gonna leave.

It's not about being happy 100 percent all the time, cause that's just life. I make sad songs, too, that really only make the happy songs better.

I know everywhere is cool and all, but, at least for me, I was lucky enough to be in southern California. I feel lucky to be from there... I feel like it taught me how to be polite.

Mike Tyson and Kool G Rap had lisps - lisps always been cool!

If I was a spy, I would have a watch that would cloak me in invisibility.

I've been a nerd my whole life.

What's important is that people never give up that fight to be happy, because when you do that, that's when things really start to go wrong.

My relationship with my father is fine. Every relationship has its ups and downs because bad things happen in all relationships. But for me, I can only write about what I'm feeling in the moment and something that actually happened to me.

The most powerful, most insightful, and most important part of my music is honesty and inclusiveness with my fans - giving them as deep a story as I can give them.

For me, I feel like the most important part of music is the storytelling behind it, and that's my favorite; that's what makes my favorite artists my favorite artists, having the story that I relate to the most and that helps me the most.

Imagine if James Brown was your roommate. What? Do you know how much fun you'd be having all the time? Oh my God, he would have you looking the freshest. He would have you doing the funnest stuff for sure, easily. You'd be having the most crackin' parties.

If you can't love yourself, you can't love other people.